Urban Encounters in Transience

„Urban Encounters in Transience“ is a meditation on perception and urban experience, exploring the phenomenology of presence. Through blur and abstraction, fleeting encounters appear as sensory traces rather than fixed moments.

Urban Encounters in Transience is an exploration of perception within the contemporary urban environment. Using movement, long exposure, and intentional blur, the project departs from descriptive street photography to focus on how the city is experienced rather than how it appears. Figures, architecture, and light intersect and dissolve, creating images that hover between presence and absence.

The work draws on phenomenological ideas of perception, where seeing is understood as embodied, unstable, and subjective. Moments in the street are not captured as decisive events but as fragments of lived experience—glimpses, sensations, and temporal overlaps that mirror the way urban life is felt in real time.

While much of the series utilizes a monochromatic palette to emphasize the haunting, repetitive rhythm of the metropolis, the strategic introduction of color serves as a conceptual pivot. In these moments, the blur is no longer a sign of erasure, but of transcendence. These chromatic ruptures symbolize a persistent hope - a reminder that within the anonymous rush of the city, there are flashes of clarity where the spirit transcends the mechanical pace of the street.

By embracing uncertainty and visual ambiguity, the series invites the viewer to slow down and reflect on their own act of seeing. What remains is not a record of the street, but an impression of being there - and the possibility of finding light within the transit.